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“The Tuskegee of the North”
Anne Levin recounts the history of The Bordentown School–Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, which was set on 400 acre and which combined a high level academic program with learning a trade. In an interview, John Medley, a…
Read MoreLynching of James Byrd Jr. on June 7, 1998 Remembered
James Byrd’s sisters and the sheriff who investigated recall Byrd’s lynching and aftermath twenty years ago in Jasper, Texas. Warning: violent details included in the story. Click here to read the account in the New York Times.
Read MoreThree Black Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime
Anne Branigin reports that the three African American Senators “Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this…
Read MoreA Story of Survival Revived by the Cicadas’ Loud (and Crunchy) Return
The return of cicadas every seventeen year to the Onondaga Nation is a reminder of the tribe’s survival and perserverance. To read the article, click here.
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